[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: make driver names consistent

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-10-18 17:26, Jan Blunck:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> > 2016-10-18 21:06, Yuanhan Liu:
> >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> >> > >From my understanding this is a massive API breakage. This forces all
> >> > existing users of the virtual PMDs to change with zero benefit. Even
> >> > if that isn't enough it also makes it impossible to switch between
> >> > releases by recompiling.
> >> >
> >> > Can we please revert these changes and work on some aliasing support
> >> > for the PMDs to fix it long term?
> >>
> >> +1. Aliasing is also something I would suggest before making such renames.
> >
> > It is a brutal change, yes.
> > It was announced in 16.07 release notes though.
> >
> 
> "But the plans were on display ..." (HHGTTG)
> 
> > We can try to make this change more progressive by keeping old names
> > as aliases for some time.
> > Is there a volunteer to work on vdev names aliases,
> > with the target of integrating them in RC2 or RC3?
> >
> 
> I'll give it a try ...

Thanks Jan